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SSAI is seeking a qualified professional to support the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in a modeling study of hydroclimate extremes. The successful applicant must have a strong background in atmospheric science (including a good understanding of the atmospheric and oceanic processes that cause climate extremes in the continental US) and must have a mixture of programming and scientific skills sufficient to perform, analyze and evaluate General Circulation Model (GCM) experiments. Duties will include analyzing observations and reanalyses to study causes and mechanisms of droughts in the continental US, performing and analyzing extensive NASA GEOS-5 GCM simulations to investigate atmospheric and oceanic processes that cause US regional droughts and the impact of model biases on the simulations, evaluating predictive skill of US regional droughts in current subseasonal and seasonal coupled forecasting systems, and development of visualizations for presentation and publication.

M.S. in atmospheric science with 2-3 years of research experience (Recent PhD in atmospheric science desired)

Familiarity with reanalyses and various station and satellite-based observational data products

Experience with performing and evaluating GCM runs using observations and reanalyses

Ability to process large data sets, experience with performing various statistical analyses

Strong programming and scripting skills and a proficiency in FORTRAN, Matlab, or IDL in a UNIX environment